Republican Candidate Spencer Pratt Crushed the Competition in Los Angeles Mayoral Debate
“Spencer Pratt finally had a chance to confront LA Mayor Karen Bass on the debate stage on Wednesday evening, delivering an impassioned performance that could change the shape of the race.”
Spencer Pratt is the Republican candidate running for mayor of Los Angeles against incumbent Democrat Karen Bass and Mamdani-style leftist Nithya Raman. Last night, during a mayoral debate, Pratt absolutely crushed both of them.
Pratt’s campaign, and more specifically his campaign ads, have been going viral for weeks. His home was destroyed in the 2024 wildfires, and he has been relentlessly hitting Bass and Raman, who is a member of the city council, for the city’s current state.
People noticed the contrast in the debate.
Joel Pollak writes at the New York Post:
Spencer Pratt delivers stunning performance in fiery LA debate showdown — contenders ranked
Spencer Pratt finally had a chance to confront LA Mayor Karen Bass on the debate stage on Wednesday evening, delivering an impassioned performance that could change the shape of the race.
The reality TV star and Palisades Fire victim channeled months of frustration with the city and the state into an effective effort at the Skirball Cultural Center, in a debate moderated by NBC 4 and Telemundo 52.
The moderators tried to restrain him from the beginning, nervously warning against “name-calling” and then scolding him when he called Bass a “liar”, after she said some of his claims were “inaccurate.”
They treated him like the beggar at the feast, the commoner at the royal table, like he didn’t belong.
It didn’t matter. Pratt was the strongest personality on the stage. And — in the biggest surprise at all — he looked solid, like a big-city mayor, with expertise beyond the devastating fire that motivated him to run.
On the left, Bass also took hits from socialist City Council member Nithya Raman. Raman made the case that Bass has failed to deliver for LA, especially on housing. But she struggled to suggest alternatives, and fumbled when asked to explain some of her more controversial votes on the city council.
The mayor, who has the support of the city’s powerful public sector unions, looked the part of the embattled incumbent — projecting a sense of authority, but constantly on the defensive.
On question after question, from crime to homelessness, business, and the economy, Pratt hammered home the city’s problems and failures of current leadership.
Here are a few clips:
🚨 WATCH: Spencer Pratt is absolutely taking Karen Bass and Nithya Raman to the cleaners on every single answer.
These people have destroyed LA.
No more enabling drug addicts and squatters! pic.twitter.com/IfAOt6bCCP
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) May 7, 2026
Spencer Pratt invites Nithya Raman during the Los Angeles Mayor debate to go with him under the Harbor Freeway and personally offer a bed to homeless addicts “who will stab you in the neck” because they don’t want treatment they want Super Meth. pic.twitter.com/yCiM7Y3fG7
— Amy Reichert (@amyforsandiego) May 7, 2026
🚨 WOW: The moderator asked a simple yes or no question in the LA Mayor’s Debate.
Should noncitizens be able to vote in local elections?
Spencer Pratt: “No.”
Karen Bass: *Word salad*
Nithya Raman: *Word salad* pic.twitter.com/Wfa7hRxUnW
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) May 7, 2026
Spencer Pratt is asked why restaurants and business are closing in downtown LA and explains that it's gotten so unsafe that some workers are required to eat inside because it's so unsafe
That's how bad things have gotten in LA with Karen Bass and Nithya Raman running things pic.twitter.com/GDOlaM0gD3
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) May 7, 2026
Spencer Pratt was asked whether he has the experience to run a city as large as LA.
“Look at the city right now. Look at what their experience has done.”
Pratt then brought up how Karen Bass was in Ghana while his house was burning down, and her Deputy Mayor was under house… pic.twitter.com/eI9kjq63Je
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) May 7, 2026
Spencer Pratt reveals Hollywood producers are now forced to hire gang members for security on their sets due to the failed policies of Mayor Bass and Councilwoman Raman.@spencerpratt "These two politicians have failed Hollywood times a thousand." pic.twitter.com/jlf23cU94p
— jay plemons (@jayplemons) May 7, 2026
The contrast between the candidates is unmistakable.
Spencer Pratt is a generational candidate that could actually fix LA.
I pray the voters give him the opportunity.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) May 7, 2026
Spencer Pratt is LA’s only hope.
— C3 (@C_3C_3) May 7, 2026
Anyone in LA who isn’t voting for @spencerpratt is a total idiot.
This isn’t even close.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) May 7, 2026
I don’t know if Spencer Pratt, or any Republican, can really win a mayoral election in Los Angeles, but he is clearly the only candidate who is offering real change to a city that needs it desperately.
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I hope he wins but are there enough non-idiots to vote for him?
Nope. The Californians I know agree that Bass is awful but they are still very much “vote blue no matter who”.
I don’t vote in CA so I have no horse in the race. However, I can’t get past in my mind what a manipulative bastard Pratt was on his reality show. The other candidates are incompetent losers and I’d never vote for them. Good thing I don’t have to vote there,
“Manipulative bastard”? Aka “politician”?
Raman was a late entry to blunt the energy behind Pratt. It shows that there is some rising intelligence in the LA voters, but alas Democrats have never put themselves in a position where they rely on voter’s intelligence. The unions will see to it that either the communist or the nearly communist wins.
Could the clapping seal even understand him? After all that’s a city of useful idiots.
A straight white male republican as mayor of LA?
I wish him nothing but the best but I’ll believe it when I see it.
If he does win, I kinda expect him to go all Javier Milei on the city.
The good news is there are two communist/socialist candidates running to split the bat-crap crazy vote. The bad news is Pratt needs 50%+1 to win outright, which seems unlikely since Bass and Raman combined outpoll Pratt significantly. And once they move to the runoff, the bat-crap crazies will unite against Pratt.
Of significance, about 50% polled say they are undecided. So that’s a path for Pratt, but it can’t be said that having that many undecided, when the contrast is so stark, is good news.
as trump has proven
if you allow the left to control the narrative you lose
the communistnazi filth will always have as the haves vs the havenots
so he needs pratt needs to attack the crime and homelessness dem led problems more than the fires that hurt the wealthy..or at least thats the way the left will frame him as only fighting for the wealthy
it would be kind of interesting if any and all gop flooded LA voting procedures with mail in ballots
causing delays and confusion and maybe a re thinking of the mail in system
The real question is, does Los Angeles deserve Spencer Pratt and his rational, common-sense platform and policy positions?
Most Los Angeles voters — Dhimmi-crats — voted, for decades, for manifestly, incompetent, corrupt, stupid, profligate, soft-on-crime “DEI” hires and other vile Dhimmi-crats who hastened and facilitated Los Angeles’s descent into the gutter. They cannot now claim to be surprised and outraged, over the predictably disastrous state of affairs that has resulted.
Loke locusts they just move elsewhere to repeat and destroy.
Yet another problem with democracy is the voters don’t have to live with their poor decisions. They can just up and move especially if they have either money or a transferable skill.
The philosophical/cultural condition that I object to is the phenomenon of Dhimmi-crat voters who, for decades, reflexively and gullibly voted for whatever corrupt, inept, stupid and corrosive Dhimmi-crat apparatchik was on the ballot, and, after twenty, thirty or forty years of such automaton complacency and lemming-like behavior, have now awakened from their long slumber, to discover — to their moronic surprise — that their city or state is now in shambles, and resembles an impoverished war zone, situated in a failed state.
Oh, now, when things have hit rock bottom, and the problems require Herculean efforts, to remediate them, they’ll consider supporting a GOP candidate?
To hell with these idiots. They made their wretched bed — now, they can sleep in it.
How much do you really think a televised debate actually moves numbers?
I doubt it moves things more than a couple of points.
(In this case, however, there are a lot of undecideds right now.)
It killed Nixon in 60 because of his flop sweat. Those who watched thought JFK won the debate. Those that listened on radio thought Nixon won. How many points was TV worth to JFK. Don’t know. However TV and the Chicago dead got him elected.
I think it’s a little exaggerated that Nixon lost the debate because of poor makeup. The debate helped Kennedy primarily because it showed him, still comparatively unknown at the time, roughly equal to Nixon who had been VP for nearly 8 years.
I want to be hopeful , but demographic has changed in CA. Any candidate the dems put at top of ticket will win 65% vote just because they are dem. Dem elites installing becerra, who will continue newscum policies.
The sad thing is that even if he does win, very little will change because all of the bureaucrats will still be communist retards.
He could hardly do worse than the Democrats. Literally, just do the opposite of every single thing Karen Bass wants, and the city would improve substantially.
What Spenver Pratt has going for him is righteous anger. I lived in LA in the 1980s and early 1990s. It was terrific place – even downtown. No coincidence – they still occasionally had Republican mayors.
In thirty years, Democrats have destroyed the city. Utterly. Each mayor more incompetent than the last.
Name a city a democratic mayor, especially a black democratic mayor hasn’t destroyed.
Precisely. Their glaring record of corruption, incompetence, malfeasance, impoverishment and destruction, speaks for itself.
None of this matters.
In the first place, people haven’t actually cared about debates for decades. They produce some clips and sound bytes that don’t actually move votes. Even before every moderator in existence went mask-off leftist, they’re a relic of a time long past and both political parties keep engaging in this farce that ‘debates’ are something people care about.
The Democrat machine will never allow him to win.
And even IF Pratt were to somehow pull it out, the insane leftists occupying every position in the city and state government would stop him from actually doing anything.
I am a native Southern Californian, but business moved me and my wife and kids east in the 90s. Once Reagan left as Governor the state started to decline. I met my wife in college and she was from Sunnyvale and did not like LA so when we got out we moved north to Sunnyvale. Our sons we born in Northern California. we still have family and friends in all parts of the state. It is sad to see how bad LA and the state has sunk.
I watched a great deal of the debate this morning. Pratt scorched them both in good fashion. When Ramannoodlehead claimed Pratt was working with Bass because they feared her, Pratt came back hard “Bass burned down my house. There is no way I’m working with her” sic.
Despite the article I thought the moderators kept it on track pretty darn well. Much better than the Presidential primary debates we have had lately.
Bass was “…projecting a sense of authority?” Huh? The woman projects “dumb as a stump”. Affirmation Action baby extraordinaire.
Olinser: “And even IF Pratt were to somehow pull it out, the insane leftists occupying every position in the city and state government would stop him from actually doing anything.”.
Damn straight. And don’t foget the mountain of white ant’s in the Public Sector Union.
“Karen Bass was in Ghana while his house was burning down, and her Deputy Mayor was under house arrest.”
Wow, there’s enough there for mural-sized campaign billboards.
it doesn’t matter who votes
it matters who COUNTS the votes
Dems gonna win.